Caricatura Museum Frankfurt

German museum for comic art

The Museum in the Leinwandhaus

Elch, sculpture by Hans Traxler

The Caricatura Museum, official name Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst, is a museum for comic art in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It shows a in a permanent exhibition works by the artists of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and additionally exhibitions of contemporary artists. It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank).

History

In 2000, a group called Caricatura of the Historical Museum, Frankfurt, began to prepare a museum for comic art in Frankfurt. The Caricatura Museum was opened on 1 October 2008 in the Leinwandhaus [de] in the Altstadt. The permanent exhibition shows works by F. W. Bernstein, Robert Gernhardt, Chlodwig Poth [de], Hans Traxler [de], and F. K. Waechter, including literary works and films. It is complemented by readings, book presentations and other events.

The trade mark of the museum is a bronze sculpture in front of the building by Hans Traxler. The Elch sculpture carries the names of the eight most important representatives of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and a two-line poem by F. W. Bernstein, "Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche / waren früher selber welche" ("The harshest critics of the moose / used themselves to be some").^[1]

Former temporary exhibitions

2008

• Bernd Pfarr [de] – Komische Welten (2 October 2008 – 11 January 2009)

2009

• Greser & Lenz [de] – Hurra, die Krise ist vorbei (29 January – 26 April 2009)
• Hans Traxler [de] – Löhleins Katze (7 May – 26 July 2009)
• ATAK (Georg Barber [de]) and Fil (Philip Tägert [de]) – Superpeter – Struwwelpeter Superheld (6 August – 20 September 2009)
• Titanic – das Erstbeste aus 30 Jahren (3 October 2009 – 31 January 2010)

2010

• Chlodwig Poth [de] – Poth für die Welt (11 February – 25 April 2010)
• Franziska Becker – Letzte Warnung (27 May – 19 September 2010)
• Guido Sieber and Franz Dobler — Die Geschichte der Populären Musik (30 September 2010 – 30 January 2011)

2011

• Jean-Marc Reiser – Vive Reiser! (10 February – 26 June 2011)
• Haderer (7 July – 27 November 2011)
• Tomi Ungerer – Satiricon (8 December 2011 – 18 March 2012)

2012

• Nikolaus Heidelbach [de] – Wurst, Wein, Weihnachten, Wild und Gemüse (29 March – 29 July 2012)
• Marie Marcks [de] (9 August – 11 November 2012)
• Caricatura VI – Die Komische Kunst (22 November 2012 – 3 March 2013)

2013

• F. W. Bernstein – Zeichenzausels Werkschau (14 March – 7 July 2013)
• Rattelschneck [de] – Lachsack statt Airbag (18 July – 3 November 2013)
• Sowa Hurzlmeier [de] Kahl [de] - Weltfremde Malerei (14 November 2013 – 16 March 2014)

2014

• Ralf König – Paul vs. Paulus (27 March – 3 August 2014)
• Kurt Halbritter [de] (14 August – 16 November 2014)
• Kamagurka – How to become a German. Die Deutschwerdung des Kamagurka (27 November 2014 – 22 March 2015)

2015

• Gerhard Glück [de] – Auch das noch! (2 April – 13 September 2015)
• Gerhard Seyfried (27 September 2015 – 24 January 2016)

2016

• Detlef Beck [de] (11 February – 12 June 2016)
• Sebastian Krüger (30 June – 30 October 2016)
• Stern-Humor (10 November 2016 – 12 March 2017)

2017

• Ari Plikat [de] (23 March – 23 July 2017)
• Frank Hoppmann [de] (3 August – 3 December 2017)
• Robert Gernhardt (15 December – 15 April 2018)

2018

• Otto – Die Ausstellung (25 April – 2 September 2018)^[2]
• Volker Kriegel – (13 September 2018 – 20 January 2019)

2019

• Ernst Kahl [de] (7 February – 12 May 2019)

2023

• Loriot^[3]

References

1. "Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Frankfurt. Die Elchskulptur auf der Website". Stadt Frankfurt am Main :: Der Magistrat :: Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main :: Fachbereich Bildende Kunst. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
2. "Otto – Die Ausstellung". Caricatura Museum Frankfurt (in German). Retrieved 7 December 2023.
3. "Caricatura Frankfurt feiert 100 Jahre Loriot: Unbekannte Werke in Ausstellung". hessenschau.de (in German). 9 November 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.

External links

• Official website
• "Caricatura Museum Frankfurt – Museum for Comical Art". Museumsufer Frankfurt. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

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